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“GLORIA LYONS”
Nelson Evening Mail
27 January 1944
BEDRIDDEN GIRL
Auckland Star
26 January 1944
PEN-FRIEND MASCOT
Evening Post
26 January 1944
AIR UNIT’S MASCOT.
Ashburton Guardian
27 January 1944
MASCOT FOR AIR UNIT
Press
27 January 1944
UNIT'S MASCOT
Evening Star
26 January 1944
BED-RIDDEN GIRL
Gisborne Herald
27 January 1944
SENTIMENT AND WAR
Manawatu Standard
26 January 1944
Plane Named For Crippled N.Z. Girl
Northern Advocate
27 January 1944
TWO “ GLORIAS ”
Otago Daily Times
27 January 1944
TWO INTERESTS
Timaru Herald
27 January 1944
VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN IN CHRISTCHURCH: AIR FORCE WEEK.—Although the weather w&s showery, a big crowd see Miss Gloria Lyons, a crippled patient from Christchurch Hospital, visit the Warhawk fighter which hears hername. However.hecause ofthe l«in’jfls in «|e pacific, was postponed till later in the week. The Warhawk fighter "Gloria Lyons,” which will be on view iri the Square during this week, made 57 raids m the racmc.
Press
19 September 1944
INVALID GIRL
Wairarapa Times-Age
27 January 1944
AIR UNIT’S MASCOT
Dominion
27 January 1944
FIGHTER NAMED AFTER GIRL
Southland Times
27 January 1944
Four men of No. 16 Fighter Squadron in 1943 with the airborne version of Gloria Lyons. From left are Russell Skelton, Maurice Moody, and two unidentified New Zealanders. See “Anyone seen Gloria?”
Press
27 August 1986
MASCOT FOR AIRMEN
Waikato Times
29 January 1944
A WARHAWK FIGHTER AND ITS MASCOT.—Above is Miss Gloria Lyons, a patient in the Christchurch Public Hospital, whose name has been given to a Warhawk fighter of the R.N.Z.A.F. in the forward Pacific area. Miss Lyons became a regular correspondent of men of the No. 4 Servicing Unit, and her name was "iven to one of the aircraft in which the men worked.
Press
27 January 1944
AMUSEMENTS
Northern Advocate
12 August 1932
TRADE POLICY.
Manawatu Standard
20 July 1935
Though bedridden in a Cliristchurch hospital, Miss Gloria Lyons has brightened the lives of lonely airmen in the Pacific with such cheeryletters that she has been adopted as the unit's mascot, with one of the Warhawk fighters named after her.
Auckland Star
26 January 1944
Reporter’s diary
Press
30 August 1986
Manawatu Repertory Society
Manawatu Times
24 September 1941
GIRL’S GRATITUDE
Manawatu Standard
10 April 1944
BRIGIDINE CONVENT
Dominion
19 December 1931

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